WW2 Veteran Celebrates 100th Birthday
The Stn had the great pleasure to be invited to celebrate Ron’s 100th birthday at Forge Court on Thursday 15th May.
Ron a veteran of WW2 has lived at Forge Court since it was built back in 2002, before that he lived in Frisby.
His daughter Christine invited us along to mark the occasion and take some photographs.
You can see above Ron with his card from His Majesty the King and her Majesty the Queen.
He also received a lovely handwritten card from the Chairman of John Lewis where he once worked.
Ron began is life on a farm in a rural community and at the age of 18 he left his reserved occupation where he was making fuel tanks for the war effort to join the army, having lived through the first five years of bombings. He was 20 years old on VE Day 1945.
He met his wife while in the army as she was an army driver and they met at the fuel depot where they got chatting and the rest as they say is history. His wife passed away about 14 years ago, so he has his daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren celebrating with him as well as residents at Forge Court.
We have met Ron before and included him in the newspaper as he was a keen gardener and enjoyed creating marquetry pictures, some of which hang in Forge Court. We featured him when Forge Court won the best community gardens in Syston in Bloom and also some of his beautiful pieces of marquetry.
Happy 100th Birthday Ron, from all of us here at the Stn.
